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Book SynopsisThrough The Performance of 16th-Century Music, today's musicians will gain fundamental insight into how 16th-century polyphony functions, and the tools necessary to perform this repertoire to its fullest and glorious potential.
Trade Reviewan engaging and useful study * Richard Wistreich, Early Music *
[a] subtle and coherent story ... No one who performs sixteenth-century music, and no one who cares about what this music sounded like or how they understood it back then, can afford to be without this ... book. * Kenneth Kreitner, Performance Practice Review *
Ann Smith ... does an immense service to performers, and especially to students, not only by bringing relevant quotations together, but also by contextualizing them without in any other way over-simplifying their ambiguities. ...we should expect nothing less of someone who has devoted her working life to developing and imparting such understanding. * Richard Wistreich, Early Music *
Table of ContentsABOUT THE COMPANION WEB SITE; PREFACE; APPENDIX: MODAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
